M106 In a 4" Scope

Hi Everyone,

It has been a while since I have posted an Image. Here is a shot that I took of M106 with my FSQ. I am looking for critical feedback on it. I am not real happy with it soooo... Please give me ideas on what I can do to pull out more detail!

Shot details
Exposures:140 300 second luminance - Total of 11 hours and 40 minutes taken on four different nights (...Don't hold me to that one )
Scope:Takahashi FSQ-106n
Camera:ST-2000 and A'Don filters
Mount:Losmandy G-11 with Gemini

Many Thanks for any and all feedback!

Brian

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Hi Brian,

Here's my feedback,WOW! 8O

I think this looks outstanding and to be honest I can't think of anything to tell you to do different.
You got really deep on this with lots of nice background fuzzies and your processing looks great to me.

I have a few hours of lum on this I now want to throw away and start over

Beautiful!

Jason

This looks really great!

Brian,
Looks pretty good. I'm not sure what there is to be unhappy about (except maybe you wanted to get color too 8) ).

Seriously though, background looks good, stars look good, Good resolution - Nice image.

Hi Brian,
I think that it is quite good. Focus is nice, well defined and detailed showing lots of good data. Tracking look very good as well. Not much to not like in this shot.

That is an excellent image as is, Brian.
I applaud your perseverance in going so deep on just one channel.
Certainly one benefit of having such good signal is that it can take to some sharpening.
I applied some unsharp mask to just your galaxy cores. You, of course, could do better with the original data.
You might want to try some selective deconvolution or other sharpening technique on the galaxies instead of the unsharp mask, then pick the one that looks the best to you.

dan

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